Overnight to Many Different Cities
Kaleidoscopically mesmerizing... Powerfully illuminating -- Village Voice
From New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, this sophisticated and surreal collection of short stories and brief visionary texts takes us on an exhilarating tour of the modern urban -- and psychological -- landscape. Alexandra, a designer of artificial ruins, creates a ruined wall with classical columns and a number of broken urns for a park in Arizona; a journalist for a magazine called Folks sets out to interview nine people who have been struck by lightning; and a retired messman steals fifty-three mothballed ships from the U.S. government.
Like a master magician, working with control and illusion, Barthelme breaks all rules. Manipulating language with irony, humor, and imagination, he captures the essence of our disorienting times.
Dizzying and enjoyable -- Publishers Weekly
Enticing. . . flecked with charm, surprise, and challenge -- Kirkus Reviews
展开- Back Cover:1001 字
- They called for more structure. . .2514 字
- Visitors14689 字
- Financially, the paper is quite healthy4036 字
- Affection9530 字
- I put a name in an envelope1866 字
- Lightning19187 字
- That guy in the back room3232 字
- Captain Blood9898 字
- A woman seated on a plain wooden chair under a can5538 字
- Conversations With Goethe4995 字
- Well we all had our Willie。。。2174 字
- Henrietta and Alexandra9973 字
- Speaking of the human body1834 字
- The Sea of Hesitation18631 字
- When he came to 。。。4008 字
- Terminus6838 字
- The first thing3998 字
- The Mothball Fleet8208 字
- Now that。。2907 字
- Wrack10721 字
- On our street。。。8340 字
- The Palace at Four A.M.15214 字
- I am, at the moment。。。3485 字
- Overnight to Many Distant Cities7641 字